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Be to Be FreeB(i)eBe Inc. will offer the newest version of its operating system for free later this quarter. Version 5 for the desktop will be available for download to pre

After almost a decade of following the enterprise applications market via insightful, sometimes exhaustive (and exhausting) free research articles (which will continue to go on in earnest and continue to be rated by our readers), the time has come for me to be in tune with the Web 2.0 and related social networking. In other words, the time has come for my blog at TEC, and the dilemma was then what

Salesforce.com offers on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, including salesforce.comSFA and salesforce.com Service & Support. The Appexchange on-demand platform from salesforce.com allows customers to extend and integrate the Salesforce.com family of products. Salesforce.com customers can also test, trial, "install" and share applications via the Appexchange, salesforce.com's on-demand application sharing service.
Salesforce's suite of social business solutions is intended to support enterprises in their efforts to foster and encourage information sharing and innovation in real time. Key features include: social network applications (profiles, status updates, groups, document sharing, feeds, etc.), employee development, motivation and evaluation capabilities (social goals, coaching, badges, performance summaries, etc.), and product innovation (post, view, rate ideas).
Salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 16,900 customers and more than 308,000 paying subscribers. Founded in 1999, Salesforce.com has offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. It trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM."

In order to avoid sinking into oblivion following its recent acquisition, System Software Associates (SSA) has recently made decisive moves to put itself back on the global enterprise business solutions map. Renaming itself as SSA Global Technologies in August was one of the moves. Will the market give it a second chance?

Part IV of this blog series further analyzed Webcom ResponsAbility, the on-demand workflow automation and business process management (BPM) solution. Anyone interested can take the product for a free trial test drive here. The vendor just released the ResponsAbility p4 release.
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Still, Webcom’s first-to-market (or close to) BPM on-demand advantage has already

Business Intelligence Portal (BI Portal) from Enterprise Software Solutions (ESS) has become part of TEC’s group of certified BI applications, and is now available for online evaluation in comparison with other BI software solutions in TEC’s Business Intelligence and Data Management Evaluation Center.
ESS, a US-based software provider with offices in Mexico, Colombia, South Africa, and Bulgaria

It is sometimes difficult to quantify the scope of spyware problems within corporate environments. The least noticeable effect of spyware is to slow network and desktop processing by tiny increments. But even the slightest slowdown, multiplied across the enterprise, adds up to a serious bottom line impact in decreased automated processing and worker productivity.

When it comes to touting 200 product enhancements, what J.D. Edwards is saying is that ease of integration is important to mid-market companies because they have less flexibility for trial and error. J.D. Edwards's CRM implementation success through its existing customer base will testify to the reliability of its enterprise integration and what remains, is to verify the product's ability to fit verticals needs.